8 weeks in at Daedalean.ai: What I have learned so far.

Aviation is a natural progression of sailing: green on the right, red on the left, to avoid the collision you take to starboard, airliners have keels, and maps are called charts (although not always)

Pilots are a nice bunch of people

eVTOLS or air-taxies are real, they are not just some silicon valley fad, and some really good people are working on making them certified and usable.

Certification is really really important, and not only to be able to launch your product but also to be able to sleep well at night. Being able to prove to the regulators that your product works as intended is hard, expensive, and takes a long time, but it also allows you to be able to say that you have done everything that you can to ensure the safety of those people who are going to be using it (and those on the ground as well).

Back to work to help make certified AI for aviation an everyday reality.